The finding of a dead junkie behind a dumpster usually isn't considered murder and if this were some ordinary uptown junkie no one would give this a second look. But it turns out that the woman found was from a rich family, a trust fund baby from the family of a man who ran for US Senate once. The widowed mother Joan McIntosh has disowned her daughter and the world of low lives she now hangs out with.
The charge of her daughter and son Dallas Roberts rests with the Jon Cypher who is the executor of her husband's estate. In a crime of neglect or what the Catholics call the sin of omission she dies of an overdose and Cypher is charged.
He's guilty, but I can kind of understand the man. I knew many people with drugs habits and a lot of them died by a sin of omission as they resolutely refused to get help. Sounds like this victim was one of them and in fact her mother disowned her. Something in Cypher snapped and he just wasn't going to clean up the family messes any more. People that I knew also resolutely refused to grow up and that's part of the problem as well.
Still Cypher winds up paying worse than he thought.